Felix Grundy

Felix Grundy (11 September 1777-19 December 1840) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-TN 4) from 4 March 1811 to 3 March 1813 (succeeding James Henry Randolph and preceding Augustus Herman Pettibone) and from TN 5 from 4 March 1813 to 19 July 1814 (preceding Newton Cannon); a US Senator (D) from 19 October 1829 to 4 July 1838 (succeeding John Eaton and preceding Ephraim H. Foster) and from 14 December 1839 to 19 December 1840 (succeeding Foster and preceding Alfred O.P. Nicholson); and Attorney General from 5 July 1838 to 14 December 1839 (succeeding Benjamin Franklin Butler and preceding Henry D. Gilpin).

Biography
Felix Grundy was born in Berkeley County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1777, and he moved to Kentucky with his family. He became a lawyer in Springfield in 1799, and he attended the state constitutional convention that same year. In 1807, he became Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and he resigned later that year and opened a law practice in Nashville, Tennessee. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1811 to 1814, in the State House from 1819 to 1825, and in the US Senate from 1829 to 1838, when he took up the position of Attorney General in Martin Van Buren's cabinet. Grundy returned to the Senate after leaving the cabinet, and he died in 1840.